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mahāvīra

mahā—vīrá m. a great hero, [RV.]; [Kathās.]; [Tantras.]

N. of Viṣṇu, [DhyānabUp.]

an archer, bowman, [L.]

a lion, [L.]

N. of Garuḍa (the bird and vehicle of Viṣṇu), [L.]

of Hanumat, [A.]

of Gautama Buddha, [MWB. 23]

sacrificial fire, [BhP.]

a sacrificial vessel, [ŚBr.]

thunderbolt, [L.]

a white horse, [L.]

the Indian cuckoo, [L.]

a kind of hawk, [W.]

Helminthostachys Laciniata, [L.]

= jarāṭaka, [L.]

N. of sev. kings, [MBh.]; [R.]; [Pur.]

of the last Arhat of the present Avasarpiṇī (the last and most celebrated Jaina teacher of the present age, supposed to have flourished in Behar in the 6th century B.C.), [MWB. 529]